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Kitty W NDE Home Classification NDE 1414 Kitty W NDE 3427 Experience Description When I was twenty-two, I learned that my husband went missing in action in Viet Nam...
Charlene P NDE Home Classification NDE 1416 Charlene P NDE 3434 Experience Description Right before the experience, I was rushed to the intensive care unit...
Henrietta N Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 1421 Henrietta N Probable NDE 207 Experience Description This occurred during an operation...
Burnie A NDE Home Classification NDE 1422 Burnie A NDE 205 Experience Description When I was unconscious I felt like I was watching a play, I was traveling to different places, some fields, riverbeds, and my home...
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Sara D NDE Home Classification NDE 1426 Sara D NDE 197 Experience Description I was about twelve or thirteen...
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Pluma S NDE Home Classification NDE 1440 Pluma S NDE 179 Experience Description My boyfriend at the time got some cocaine, and said I couldn't do any unless I did it like he did, with a needle...
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Decembra B NDE Home Classification NDE 1442 Decembra B NDE 167 Experience Description I was swimming with a friend as a child and I swam too far across a lake to get back...
My boyfriend and I were playing around in the park...
James G NDE Home Classification NDE 1445 James G NDE 164 Experience Description I was in a coma, gangrene right leg, heart failure, lungs -- pulmonary edema...
Francis R NDE Home Classification NDE 1447 Francis R NDE 161 Experience Description I had just started the fifteenth seizure when everything went black...
